Sailing Talk Podcast - America’s Cup shenanigans

Sailing Talk Podcast - America’s Cup shenanigansAndy's at the Alpari World Match Racing Tour in Korea, Justin now resident in San Francisco. The shenanigans swirling around the America's Cup are gathering pace, with Justin getting the latest from Grant Dalton, and news of James Spithill falling off the back of the Oracle AC72. With the Cup still reeling from the death of Andrew 'Bart' Simpson, and Artemis Racing's participation in the Louis Vuitton Cup not yet assured, there's lots more news to come before racing begins a month from now....

 
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Slow-speed boat control **
Ever seen those cycle couriers hold their bikes upright, even when they're stopped waiting for the lights to change? It takes great bike-handling to do that. And as Olympic gold medal winning coach Jon Emmett points out, it takes great boat-handling to sail slowly too. How is it the best sailors can sail faster than the rest of us, and sail slower than the rest of us too? It's a skill worth emulating...
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Downwind Boat Trim *
Topper sailing downwindJust as with upwind boat trim, on downwind legs the three power controls of sail trim, crew weight and steering all come into play. Whilst flat is generally best on a reach, the other aim is to get neutral feel in the rudder, and these two aims don't always go together....
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GC32: The shape of cats to come?
Tour to the GC32 CatamaranThe Great Cup’s first ever event has just concluded in Austria, the competitive debut of the 32ft semi-foiling catamaran, the GC32. The Daily Sail's James Boyd asks one of the brains behind the GC32, Andrew McPherson, for his rundown on this hi-tech flyer....




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Ogletree’s tips for catamaran reaching ***
Tornado multihull racingOlympic silver medallist Charlie Ogletree talks through reaching techniques in catamarans. "One of the common mistakes you see is the wind will drop a knot or two, and the natural reaction is to trim the sheets harder to keep the hull up. This is the exact opposite of what you should do. You should ease the sheet, which straightens the mast and generates more power from the sails...."
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Dodging Turtles, Dodging Bullets to Become 505 World Champions

Dodging Turtles, Dodging Bullets to Become 505 World ChampionsClaas Lehmann and Leon Oehme lived the longest day of their sporting lives on Friday—and came away champions. With Lehmann steering and Oehme out on the trapeze wire, they went to the line of race nine of the 2013 SAP 5O5 World Championship as one of three teams with a chance at the title, all of them German, all of them veteran, one of them a five-time champion who would have been the house bet to win.

 

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Howie Hamlin's 505 fit-out
Howie Hamlin & Andy Zinn at the 505 WorldsHowie Hamlin and Andy Zinn talk through the fit-out of the 505. The Americans won the 2013 Pre-World Championships in Barbados. You can see some subtle layout differences in their approach to boat set-up compared with the leading Europeans, whose boats tend to be more complex and have more adjustments....






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Sailing Talk Podcast - America’s Cup World Series in Naples

Sailing Talk Podcast - America’s Cup World Series in NaplesGrant Dalton getting angry. What's new there? But did he have a right to be, when asking if it was right for Oracle and Artemis to leave their A-Team sailors behind in San Francisco. More controversy for Emirates Team New Zealand in a crash with training partners Luna Rossa. Andy Rice of SailJuice.com asks Jack Griffin of CupExperience.com to share his opinions on what went down in Naples at the America's Cup World Series regatta...

 

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Wolfgang Hunger's Worlds winning 505
Wolfgang Hunger & Julien KleinerWolfgang Hunger has won the 505 World Championships no less than five times. Here, the former Olympian and his crew Julien Kleiner talk through some of the equipment on their 505 racing dinghy...
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Winning the Pin in the 49er FX
Winning the Pin in the 49er FXWatch the GBR girls in gold vests book their favoured slot at the pin end and dominate the start of this 49er FX race in Hyeres...






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The Incurable Optimist - Part 2: Is your glass half empty or half full? ***
Part 2 of our look at the power of incurable optimism, and also the power of incurable pessimism. If you don’t think you can cross that starboard-tacker, you probably won’t...
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Julien Kleiner: Sailing angles downwind in the 505

 

Wolfgang Hunger & Julien KleinerWorld Champion crew Julien Kleiner talks about sailing the 505 downwind on hot angles: "I think it's a lot of sailing the boat downwind with trimming with your body weight, the spinnaker and moving your body back and forth and in and out and having the right feel how the boat wants to go down the next wave...."

 

 

 

 

 

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